Posts Tagged ‘Safety’

Question by Edd S: What safety measures do I need to take when disposing of dead animals found on my land?
I work for a company and we frequently find dead fox’s and other wild animals dead when they have been hit by a train or electrocuted. We have to bag these and dispose of these ourselves – what controls should we have in place to protect our staff? I know risk assess – but if you have some pointers this would be helpful.

Best answer:

Answer by Matthew DWear long handled surgical gloves and wash your hands/arms afterwards. If you get to them soon enough they don’t smell bad or aren’t that messy, but after a few days it can be pretty gross.

However, since they were probably healthy before they got hit by a train/electric wire, etc, most of the things (microbes and etc) that live in those dead animals are naturally all around us all the time, they are in the dirt, they are on your skin before you ever touched the animal. They moved inside the animal once the white blood cell count dropped because the heart stopped beating, but they aren’t going to move inside you. You’ve been exposed them already, and they can’t hurt a healthy human. (If you have cancer/HIV/pregnant/running a fever/open wounds/etc, then you aren’t healthy, and should avoid it.) If you were picked up animals that died of weird illnesses that you didn’t understand, (if you find a flock of dead chickens with no signs of trauma, for instance,) you’ll want to wear a full body suit and a self contained breathing system…

Several years ago, the Belt Railway Of Chicago handed out train sets to employees who kept a clean safety record for a certain amount of time. Only 100 of these O-Scale K-Line train sets were produced, and included BRC MP15DC #536, 5 cars, track, and a power pack. These sets were only handed out to BRC employees and were never sold to the general public. I happened to be looking around in a local hobby shop one day and came across two parts of the set- the locomotive and box car- I also found out the info behind them as well… I have a lot of old O-scale Lionel stuff that was handed down from my deceased grandpa that I set up at Christmas. The BRC MP15DC leads a consist of it’s matching box car, 5 tank cars and a caboose. The four silver Sunoco tank cars and Erie work Caboose were made during the 1950’s by Lionel. The white Mobil tank car was made during the 1970s, also by Lionel. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all friends and subscribers!!Video Rating: 4 / 5